Postmodernism announces
(loudly and often) that a supposedly neutral, objective rationality is always a
construct informed by interests it neither acknowledges nor knows nor can know.
Meanwhile science goes its merry way endlessly inventing and proliferating
technological marvels without having the slightest idea of why. The “naive
faith” Habermas criticizes is not a faith in what science can do — it can do
anything — but a faith in science’s ability to provide reasons, aside from the
reason of its own keeping on going, for doing it and for declining to do it in
a particular direction because to do so would be wrong
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